Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:41:27 -0800
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
       Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
       Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] barrier patch set
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:39:26PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> I'm suspicious of this, because of Bart's point...  I haven't seen
> any PATA disks that did FUA, so it sounds like broken software.

I was kinda hoping that the response would be "all modern SATA and
PATA dirves" because ideally this would be a nice thing to have.
Maybe we should just test in a few places and see if it works (timing
will show obviously).


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